Natalie Portman Quotes
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I am a very strict vegetarian. ...I just really, really love animals, and I act on my values.
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Really, really obscene hip-hop. I love it so much. It makes me laugh and then it makes me want to dance.
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As I look back on it, I'm glad that I had this false image. I was who everyone else - my parents, my friends, society - wanted me to be. I was a pleaser, someone who wanted to make everyone happy, to not let anyone down. Now, I'm not like that.
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Sometimes people say something to you and you're like, "I respect you so much, I love what you do, but I disagree. I don't think that's right for the way I see it."
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The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering.
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Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They feel medieval. I was very happy to stop wearing them.
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Lying is the most fun a woman can have without taking her clothes off.
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It doesn't matter if you mean to do the right thing - if you only do bad things. You need to learn how to do right things. Doing is what affects people.
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I'm tough on myself in terms of the standards I want to live up to, but that's also part of my pleasure: Knowing you are being your fullest self. Being your fullest self is a lot of work.
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No one will ever love you as much as I do. Why isn't love enough?
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I think the press is doing a wonderful job of putting the pressure on the decision-makers in Hollywood to support more female directors.
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There are still vestiges of societal limitations on women. I tend to think that has to do with opportunities that are available - it says a lot that it's still sometimes the best opportunity for a woman to be able to advance herself.
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I think that's the real shame: We spent the last 48 hours talking about these disgusting, disgusting comments and disgusting behavior instead of talking about hurricane relief or what's going on in Flint, Michigan. It's just appalling to have to be dealing with such nonsense and such disgusting, you know, criminal speech.
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Grab the good people around you. Don't let them go.
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Donald Trump wants to punish women for getting abortions and defund Planned Parenthood.
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Part of my reason for being vegetarian was because it practices respect and love for life all through the day, so three times a day, you make a decision to eat things that have not been killed.
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Use Starbucks mints for every occasion—they're the strongest.
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Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new shoes for every performance. It's such a process. It's almost religious, in nature.
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Microcredit is about giving hope.
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I think you always need to be able to relate to your characters, but that doesn't necessarily mean...you have to understand why they do what they do, but you don't actually have to be like that yourself.
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You really know a person when you sleep so near to them, or when you eat with them.
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I'm not really much of a genre guy. I think that audiences don't need that anymore where you just need a very specific genre. Audiences are very sophisticated, and as long as it's fun, it's okay and entertaining.
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Hillary Clinton is incredibly prepared and smart on all of the issues.
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When you get older, you realize it's a lot less about your place in the world but your place in you. It's not how everyone views you, but how you view yourself.